Posted on 05/06/2024 9:31:08 AM PDT by ebb tide
CWN Editor's Note: On the last day of Parish Priests for the Synod—an international meeting of parish priests at the Vatican—Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, encouraged participants “to become ambassadors of synodality, to be full participants in a synodal Church, to become with all the people of God, missionary disciples of Jesus.”
“Many times their training and their reality have been oriented towards a Tridentine model of the priesthood,” Cardinal Hollerich, the relator-general of the synod on synodality, said of parish priests, in an address to Pope Francis in the presence of participants. “And now they see that the identity they had for centuries is crumbling, and sometimes this identity is lost ... and there is the danger of wanting to build a new identity based on the experience of the past.”
“The identity of priests and parish priests (even bishops) is given to us by the Holy Spirit when we walk with the people,” he continued. “Then the sacraments are no longer the expression of a ritualism in search of identity, but become a true rite where God communicates himself to his people.”
Cardinal Hollerich’s reference to the “Tridentine model of the priesthood” appears to be a reference to the Council of Trent’s teaching on the priesthood, and not simply a reference to the traditional Latin Mass.
The archbishop of Luxembourg, now 65, gained notoriety in 2022 when he said that Catholic teaching on homosexuality is “false.” In 2023, Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Hollerich to his nine-member advisory Council of Cardinals.
Barf Alert Ping
The unwarranted arrogance of these turkeys would be almost comical if they weren’t in positions of power that allow them to make things so difficult for everyone else. Ultimately, though, they’re all just spitting in the wind. The “Tridentine model” is a functional model. It works, and all the complaining and decrying and lamenting that Hollerich does can’t change reality. The “Tridentfine model” will outlive him, whether he likes it or not.
Amen.
Windswept House.
“Cardinal Hollerich also said it was “difficult” when the costs of legal reports exceeded the payments made to victims. “In that case something is wrong.”
According to the Archdiocese of Cologne, Cardinal Woelki spent around 2.8 million euros from 2019 to 2021 on legal experts, media lawyers and communication consultants as part of the reappraisal of abuse. Since 2010, about 1.5 million euros has been paid to victims of clerical abuse in recognition of their suffering.
The current interim administrator of the archdiocese, Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Rolf Steinhäuser, ordered a review of the contracts because church committees may have been ignored in the process of awarding them”.
Is it all about the money?
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/02/02/hollerich-gay-church-teaching-242324
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